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TABLE 28.—United States exports of tobacco extracts, by countries, for specified 
years 
Country to which 
exported 1929 1921 1933 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 
Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds | Pounds |Pounds 
Bel oiuim pss ase eee 3, 744 590 648 629 28, 212 0 1, 852 1, 281 
Denmarke2 sss 1, 431 3, 687 0 1, 921 I Pere 3, 107 1, 856 4, 360 
Germanys 1, 756, 513 }1, 098, 306 |1, 085, 351 |1, 005, 065 |1, 377, 480 |1, 406, 584 | 733,486 | 214, 290 
Netherlands_-_____.__--- 142,008 | 102,620 86, 034 90, 963 75, 127 68,901 | 72,309 | 115, 973 
INOLWaY se 45, 950 29, 707 34, 468 35, 131 29, 298 33, 290 | 26,584 | 37,653 
Sweden_.__--_.-__- te ae 6, 550 0 0 0 5, 686 5, 765 5, 500 6, 600 
United Kingdom. ____. 8, 240 52 28, 000 0 0 0 357 4, 380 
Canad awe 22, 586 34, 037 36, 782 41, 899 49, 804 37, 498 1, 208 
Cubateee eee oe ee ft) 40 0 7, 470 273 5, 888 0 0 
Haiti, Republic of_____- 26, 084 1, 217 0 0 0 360 0 
Colombia 702 703 320 21, 200 0 15 1, 024 0 
Wricuaya ee 0 0 5, 843 4, 529 4,492 915 0 0 
Chinigt sor 2S eee 0 324 600 0 0 1, 120 0 0 
Japa: soe er eee ee 10, 614 0 0 0 0 0 475 0 
New Zealand__________- 8, 336 16, 160 0 0 3, 520 0 0 0 
Other countries_________ 6, 642 6, 976 13, 686 7, 881 15, 652 18, 252 4,732 | 11,590 
Motalkext=seeereas 2, 039, 400 |1, 294, 419 |1, 291, 732 |1, 216, 688 |1, 590, 821 |1, 581,695 | 849, 383 | 396, 207 
Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars Dollars | Dollars | Dellars 
RY 4 1b (sey ene ee eked eee ul 348,810 | 218,944 194,587 | 194,596 257,036 255,982 | 140,636 | 70, 432 
Value per pound _______ . 1710 . 1691 . 1506 . 1599 . 1616 . 1618 . 1656 . 1778 
Compiled from Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States and official records of the Bureau 
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. 
Minor Byproducts—Miunor byproducts prepared from offal tobacco 
are poultry dusting powder, greenhouse fumigants, and mushroom 
spawn. Other actual or potential byproducts are nicotinic, malic, 
and citric acid. Laboratory research is being conducted to make the 
production of these acids from tobacco offal commercially practicable, 
and to explore the possibility of other uses. 
Export TRADE 
In colonial times the overseas trade in tobacco was so important 
that statistics on exports represent the only apparent record of 
production for the period from 1618 to 1788 (13). Beginning with 
20,000 pounds in 1618, they permanently passed 1 million pounds in 
1639. From 1664 to 1774 exports ranged from 20 million to more 
than 107 million pounds. From then until 1814 the quantity exported 
fluctuated widely, and it was not until 1851 that exports permanently 
exceeded 100 million pounds. Since 1870 the exports have never 
fallen below 200 million pounds, and since 1899 they have only twice 
fallen below 300 million pounds. In recent years, allowing for some 
loss in weight in the tobacco as reported in export statistics, ap- 
eAoce ste ok 40 percent of the total United States production has been 
exported. 
The factor of predominant influence in the tobacco industry today 
is the steadily increasing consumption of the cigarette throughout 
much of the world. Its effects are apparent, therefore, not only in the 
increasing production of cigarette types of tobacco for domestic 
consumption but in exports and imports of cigarette tobacco. To- 
bacco from earliest colonial times has been one of our important 
export commodities, being exceeded in export value among agri- 
cultural products only by cotton, wheat, and some meat products, 
but the character of tobacco exported has undergone great change. 
